The absolute state of the memes on Lemmy.ml
The absolute state of the memes on Lemmy.ml
This is the opposite of culture. This shrinks your brain instead of stimulating it. They are just so bland. They are just so old. Spiciness and humour are completely unknown to them. Here are the current top 4:
How come liberals are so bad at meming? I'm sure I've seen half of these already, years ago. It's like someone dredged the bottom of ifunny.co for the most milquetoast, blandest things possible.
listen, just let them enjoy things. My god. Yeah it's kinda cringe facebook level memes, but it's what they like
The vibe I've gotten from lemmy.ml is they're a lot of gen-x to late boomer nerdy programmer types who just wanna have a nice polite website. I find it charming honestly. They're sweet. A little lib sometimes but no one's perfect.
Whenever someone tells me to let people enjoy things I want to sink my teeth into their bare flesh like a wild animal
Let @PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net enjoy sinking their teeth into stale Reddit memers.
be a hater from afar.
I'm convinced they have a bot that scrapes Reddit for the most dire memes of like 2017
I was thinking they are scraping Facebook meme pages.
there is a spammer who reposts memes (with same title) from top posts 3 years ago to farm karma.
Some lemmy users are 60 years old and that's OK
The three you posted are okay memes, not rancid (and that's like A LOT sadly) , but obviously not hilarious, nor surrealist nor avantgarde. Yet they are fine.
Some people just want to see cats in costumes. Not because of anything broken inside them, but just because they interact with the internet that way. And it's okay
I'm sorry, my zoomer brain doesn't appreciate anything that's not deep fried or said by a head coming out of toilet. Cats are reactionary and old people harsh my vibes by reminding me of death.
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i thought the lost hiker one was funny and relatable
Same, tho yes I had already seen it like a year ago
OP posting almost no memes
Those are normal memes. We just happen to have a culture of great posting passed down to us from weird Twitter.
I just blocked the comm basically as soon as we federated.
Same, I blocked all the meme stuff. It`s legit where most of Lemmy get it's activity. But, it's not great.
this is just facebook boomer meme stuff
It's a known fact that Redditors (and these Ledditor knockoffs) are criminally unfunny. There's a reason why the only parts of Reddit that are remotely funny are 95% Twitter screenshots. It's because Twitter, unlike the bottomless pit of unfunny that is Reddit, is actually funny.
I blocked that shit near immediately.
LEARN TO POST BETTERthey have no community and are desperately trying to fill their instance with any activity to keep the thing alive
they'll all be back on reddit by christmas
So I've been out of the meme game for a while now but to me it felt like there were a steady stream of meme formats that would come out and then in the past, say 3 or 4 years, the overall volume of new meme formats took a huge nosedive for some reason.
Has any other (old) person noticed this or is it just me?
I think I know what you mean. It was all motivational posters or impact font macros for a while. Then there were those endless Epic Fail Guy or rage guy comics. Then I don't even know, it was wild for a while after around 2012.
Now a meme is one of three things: a picture with a white box and black text, a wojack, or edits of webcomics from 15 years ago
the original editor-in-chief of The Onion back in the 1980s, when they actually printed satirical newspapers, had a philosophy, that there are only 11 types of joke (each one of the examples below is an Onion headline from back in the day, forgive me for they are corny)
- Irony – Intended meaning is opposite of literal meaning
Alcoholic Father Disappointed In Pothead Son
- Character – Comedic character acting on personality traits
Mom Thinks You'd Enjoy Restaurant She Can't Remember Name Of Right Now
- Relatable – Common experiences that audiences can relate to
Day Chalked Up As Loss By 10:15 A.M. (this is most "normie memes")
- Shock – Surprising jokes typically involving sex, drugs, gross-out humor, swearing
Holy Shit, Man Walks On Fucking Moon
- Parody/Reference – Mimic a familiar character, trope or cliche in an unfamiliar way
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet
- Hyperbole – Exaggeration to absurd extremes
Magnanimous Boss, King Of Kings, Allows Employees To Watch World Cup In Office
- Wordplay – Puns, rhymes, double entendres, etc.
Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan
- Analogy – Comparing two disparate things
Man Approaches Unfamiliar Shower Knobs Like He's Breaking A Wild Stallion
- Madcap – Crazy, wacky, silly, nonsensical
Wheelchair Basketball Players Stunned By Thunderous Slam Dunk
- Meta-humor – Jokes about jokes, or about the idea of comedy
It Sadly Unclear Whether This Article Will Put Lives At Risk
- Misplaced Focus – Attention is focused on the wrong thing
Really Fun Toy Banned Because Of 3 Stupid Dead Kids
Yep. That's exactly it.
There was a period, at least a few years and probably more like 5 or so, where there was a short meme cycle to the point where sometimes a meme format would be stale within a month or two and there was a huge churn of new meme formats that would be constantly emerging.
Then it's like someone just turned the tap off and the culture died (I wonder if something shifted in 4chan maybe?) and now we're just stuck with wojacks.
Speaking of which...
In the Star Trek community it's all screen caps with fake dialogue
I asked my nephew what memes were like now and he said, “memes are cringe, breh”
I knew I was old but I never thought that I'd feel this old until I read your comment.
your nef (zoomer speak for nephew) is so wise
The new 'meme format' is reminiscent of the sheer incomprehensibility of memes from 2005, where you could still easily stumble on just the most random stuff, and there were like four or five different videos players and they were all terrible, but the videos were occasionally funny
But now it's like that through mainstream apps and on purpose. People are just throwing whatever they can think of at the algorithm and seeing what sticks
The biggest 'trends' I see are stuff from TikTok, but still, even that is alot of nonsense, some of it comprehensible, some of it not.
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I agree with the IPA one, it's annoying. I think on our community a complaint about IPA would be in the chat section or something, it's not funny enough to be a meme but it is true
These are cute, it's like a time machine to something I'd find funny 10 years ago maybe
They're just dad memes
Not everyone's sense of humor is poisoned by being terminally online.
How can you say that with a gem like this? /s
A good half of the front page are facebook tier.
I dont get it. Thats not a joke. Theres no humour. How is that a meme?
Neither do I. That usually means it's too many irony layers deep or the person is bad at memes.
they needed 500 api calls on their custom reddit app to find a meme good enough they could pretend to be funny. left to themselves, they're full Tom Myers.
hell yeah dude
Death to America
Death to America
Hell yeah dude
First thing I did after federation was block their meme comm. It's dire.
I've been gone for awhile so I missed the whole federation thing. I thought lemmy was made by Marxists?
Edit: oh nvm I was thinking of lemmygrad.
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I'm not gonna lie, noticing the disconcerting number of hugely upvoted (300-600 vote) stuff that is just painfully unfunny or unenlightening is making me roll back my participation in hexbear. It's not my place to say anyone doesn't belong here, though. But I am sad that the huge influx of new users has changed the whole feel of this community overnight.
Sort by “local” and you’ll only see hexbear posts
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you can block the comm. it instantly improved the experience
It's just the RC Cola to Reddit's Pepsi and 4chan's Coca-Cola.
What drink do we have here?
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Piss
We have an emoji for that, actually.
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These are basically just reddit-tier memes from now all the way back to le epic bacon era. They aren't as bad as the kinda stuff you see on facebook, but there's not much to them and they're mostly just the kinda thing you would have tweeted without an image in like 2011.
Idk I got a good chuckle out of the GPS one. Most of that sub is pretty bad though, can't argue with that
The GPS meme is like C tier at best, not terrible if we're just scrolling through facebook or whatever, but jesus christ if you told me that would be the most upvoted meme on hexbear a year ago, I might have actually logged off.
There's a certain amount of edge that you have to have for good meme making and milquetoast people don't have it.
i genuinely thought it was ironic until i checked the comments on one of their posts that made the front page out of grim curiosity
i blocked it right after bc it was beyond unbearable
this is why i blocked this community, /c/memes@lemmy.ml is the worst thing since /r/dankmemes
These memes are fucking embarassing, just bottom of the barrel shit that an AI could shit out. And everyone types exactly like redditors, there is actually zero fucking difference between lemmy and redditors.
Wrong, they're using a different website, so there's at least one difference.
the beer one is rly funny because that's not a real thing? someone tell me if i'm off base here but in states where groceries can sell alcohol they usually carry a wide selection of beer? i have a suspicion that they just think "IPA" means any beer that isn't brewed by a company owned by AB InBev.
I think the craft brewery boom died down, but for a while whenever a brewery opened they sold at least 3 different IPAs, maybe a stout/Belgian sour beer if you're lucky, and sometimes a Pilsener if they felt like going for broad appeal and liked being open for more than 4 years.
IPAs are the easiest beer to not mess up, and that's why they were the most common kind of craft beer. I hate IPAs and they were all named shit like "skullfucker IPA", "unhinged psychopath IPA". I guess I can't get over the bitter part and taste the "citrus" or whatever flavour notes people talk about.
Grocery stores, yeah you can buy whatever, but usually any new beerto try was an IPA.
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Old thread but just visited lemmy.ml for the first time in a while, and this has over 400 upvotes: https://lemmy.ml/post/5857513
I cannot think of anything less funny.
they'd get 20 times that. Is there a community?